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SUMMARY:Measuring National Well-Being – what matters to you? - Panellist
 s listed below
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DESCRIPTION:6.00 – 7.30 Debate\n7.30 Drinks Reception\n\n\n*Cambridge* *
 Judge* *Business* *School* *and* *the* *Well-Being* *Institute\,* *Univers
 ity* *of* *Cambridge* *are* *pleased* *to* *host* *a* *debate* *on* *the* 
 *measurement* *of* *national* *well-being* *on* *behalf* *of* *the* *Offic
 e* *for* *National* *Statistics.* \n\nThis is a public event for which you
  can register at http://whatmatterstoyou.eventbrite.com\n\nThe Office for 
 National Statistics is developing a set of measures of national well-being
  to complement economic measures - such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - 
 that until now have underpinned evaluations of ‘how the UK is doing’. 
 The argument is that national well-being cannot be understood by looking a
 t economic measures alone. There is growing demand for wider measures of p
 rogress and a more complete picture of ‘how society is doing’. \n\nThe
  National Statistician has launched a nationwide debate with the aim of un
 derstanding the dimensions and key features of national well-being – or\
 , more simply\, determining what things matter to people. Although there a
 re some existing objective measures that may help understand national well
 -being (for example around health\, education\, employment and crime)\, it
  seems equally important to understand subjective measures of well-being (
 how we experience our lives\, e.g. how happy and fulfilled we are) – but
  there is no consensus\, and very little available data on such measures. 
 The national debate aims to identify and elaborate key themes that will he
 lp to develop credible\, robust measures of individual and national well-b
 eing\, for use in future surveys.  \n\nThe Cambridge event will take the f
 orm of a ‘Question Time’ debate\, chaired by the BBC’s Claudia Hammo
 nd. Panellists will be:\n\n* *Jen* *Beaumont*\, Social Trends Branch Head\
 , Office for National Statistics\n* *Andrew* *Gamble*\, Professor of Polit
 ics\, Head of Department of Politics and International Studies & Associate
  Fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy\, University of Cambridge\n* 
 *David* *Halpern*\, Director\, Behavioural Insights Team\, Cabinet Office\
 n* *Felicia* *Huppert*\, Professor of Psychology & Director of the Well-Be
 ing Institute\, University of Cambridge\n* *Simon* *Learmount*\, Director 
 of the Executive MBA\, Judge Business School\, University of Cambridge\n* 
 *Nic* *Marks*\, Founder of the Centre for Well-Being\, Fellow at the new e
 conomics foundation\n\nThis is a public event for which you can register a
 t http://whatmatterstoyou.eventbrite.com\n\nYou are warmly encouraged to c
 ontribute your views and ideas as part of the national debate\; you can ei
 ther submit questions in advance when registering or raise issues from the
  floor. Please note there is very limited parking at the venue. \n\nThe de
 bate and reception is being sponsored by the Cambridge Executive MBA progr
 amme. \n
LOCATION:Cambridge Judge Business School
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